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Blecher_onthe_Hudson OP t1_iwj4h20 wrote

Reply to comment by downvotes_puffins in Any recs for 'rental grade' granite countertop supplier? by Blecher_onthe_Hudson

I guess you don't run a business or you wouldn't be asking silly questions.

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garth_meringue t1_iwji0da wrote

It's not so different from running a household, I always gotta look out for my own bottom line. For example jars are pretty expensive these days, I can save some money by pouring my landlord grade food grease down the drain.

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htt-papi t1_iwk09ps wrote

i want u to know that despite the few downvotes, u have my support

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garth_meringue t1_iwnm1u3 wrote

Thank you, we renters gotta stick together like this bacon grease sticks to the pipes.

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downvotes_puffins t1_iwjm2op wrote

You’re the one asking for “business” advice on Reddit.

Normal businesses produce things of value to their customers. Landlords are rentiers who produce nothing of value and instead collect ever-increasing rents from people who just want a place to live.

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Blecher_onthe_Hudson OP t1_iwk7uji wrote

Whatever Comrade. You clearly have no idea what a capital and labor intensive business rental property is. You seem to imagine we plucked the property from tree and didn't have to borrow vast sums, or have to continually invest to bring crumbling shithole 140 year old buildings back to habitability.

Sure, we just sit back and have nubile young girls drop grapes in our mouths! Grow the fuck up.

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joejoeaz t1_iwl7x4n wrote

OP, the fact that you genuinely seem a little insulted by the notion of landlords being predators, might suggest that maybe you're not the type of landlord these people are talking about. That said, no one is pulling these opinions from thin air either. There's LOTS of shitty landlords who just look to collect money from their tenants and eschew spending whenever humanly possible. Some of these landlords are truly "up against it" like you state, and have expensive to maintain properties and need to charge that much, while many many others do not have the expenses you state you have, and just collect what the market will bear without investing that money back into the property. I do think you were being kind of a jerk when you suggested that anyone who thought landlords might be greedy is a communist by addressing them as comrade in your reply, but as I noted earlier, I suppose you were a bit insulted.

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